Brand new and haven't a clue

I'm not only new to restoring and retouching, I'm sort of a novice at Photoshop too, so I don't know where to even begin with this one.

While preparing my home for some major demolition work (thank you Hurricane Wilma), I came across some really old family photos. They're so old that I don't even know who the people are (I suspect the young couple in back are my grandparents). As you can see, this photo was severely damaged and broken, and someone tried to fix it with tape. When I scanned the photo to send it to a cousin, I found I could see faces very faintly under the tape. The problem is that I don't even begin to have a clue as to how to "remove" the tape lines so that I might be able to practice restoring the entire photo and especially those faces that were obscured by the tape.

I know I'm asking alot, but I truly appreciate any assistance you can offer me as to how and where to begin to save this precious family photo.

Yes, the tape is still on the original, and I wouldn't dare try to remove it for fear of losing what little is left of the original faces and clothing.

I have nowhere near the expertise to even attempt this yet, and at 63 years of age myself, I'm not sure there's even enough time left for me to learn. It would be nice to at least try though, or get some help from people who know what they're doing.

Is there any chance you can do a more detailed scan of the little girl in the middle with her face blanked by the tape. This will give us an idea of what detail is hidden under the tape. The rest of the image looks quite good, so that shouldn't be any problem at all

I will do my best to isolate that area if it will help. Is there anything in particular I need to know or do (such as resolution, size, etc) that will help you?

We know practically nothing about our relatives, and my cousin and I are thrilled to have a photo. She will now show it to her dad (he's in his mid 90s) and hopefully he'll have some ideas as to who is who.

If you can scan the area i've shown in the image below at about 200-300dpi resolution, that should give enough detail to work with and remember keep the file below 100kb limit for uploading
Just looking at the image you have given, the blue channel seems to hold the detail where the tape is. I've done a curves adjustment and deleted red and green channels from the one below and you can see more details already.

looking at that scan, the details in the blank parts are only really slight outlines of features. But some detail will have been lost in compressing the file for uploading. As it may be the only picture you have like this, you can use a reconstruction method to rebuild the face using other parts of the image (like ozonew4m has done). You can use the intact female faces to build a good likeness, and use the feature outlines in the taped areas as a guide. This is never 100% successful, but does give a likeness and a cleaner looking image .

chrishoggy is correct, that is exactly the way ive tried to get my results.. I really do have to go out now (oops im late ) oh well.. this is what ive done while i was waiting.. its by no means perfect but i hope you like it